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SRE Engineer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, making it far more predictable than the H-1B visa for Australian engineers targeting U.S. infrastructure and reliability teams.
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At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands-on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.
Overview:
Seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leader to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical Infrastructure Automation platforms. This role will lead the design and implementation of SRE practices across a federated technology ecosystem, ensuring operational excellence through automation, observability, and resilient architecture.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, SaaS application support and DevOps/SRE principles, along with strong leadership and collaboration skills to influence cross-functional engineering and Production management teams and drive continuous improvement in service reliability.
Responsibilities:
SRE Strategy & Governance:
- Define and implement SRE frameworks, including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and incident response protocols.
- Establish governance models for reliability engineering across distributed teams.
- Champion a culture of observability, proactive monitoring, and continuous feedback loops.
Reactive & Proactive Problem Management:
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews to identify systemic issues and prevent recurrence.
- Implement proactive problem detection using telemetry, anomaly detection, and trend analysis.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to eliminate toil and reduce incident frequency and impact.
Capacity & Performance Management:
- Develop and maintain capacity models to ensure systems scale efficiently with business demand.
- Monitor performance trends and lead optimization efforts across infrastructure and applications.
- Partner with finance and engineering teams to align capacity planning with cost and growth objectives.
Platform Reliability & Automation:
- Drive automation of operational tasks including deployments, scaling, and recovery.
- Integrate reliability tooling with CI/CD pipelines, ITSM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow), and observability systems.
Incident Management & Operational Excellence:
- Oversee major incident response, escalation, and communication processes.
- Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols.
- Drive continuous improvement through blameless retrospectives and operational reviews.
Technical Leadership:
- Serve as a senior technical advisor and thought leader in SRE and platform engineering.
- Mentor and guide SRE teams and partner with engineering leaders across the enterprise.
- Provide input on staffing, tooling strategy, and budget planning for reliability initiatives.
Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
- Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
- Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
- Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
- Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
- People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
- Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
- Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
- Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles in large-scale environments.
- Deep understanding of Linux/Unix & Windows systems, networking, and distributed computing.
- Proven experience with observability stacks (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python).
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Demonstrated success in leading incident response and driving systemic improvements.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with ITIL/ITSM processes and integration with platforms like ServiceNow.
- Familiarity with security and compliance in regulated industries (e.g., financial services).
- Background in performance engineering and infrastructure analytics.
- Experience developing dashboards and metrics for operational health and reliability.
Skills:
- Influence
- Risk Management
- Solution Design
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Strategy Development
- Analytical Thinking
- Application Development
- Collaboration
- Result Orientation
- Solution Delivery Process
- Agile Practices
- Architecture
- Automation
- Data Management
- DevOps Practices
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
Job Description:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
This job is responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Key responsibilities include developing a technology strategy, ensuring technology solutions comply with applicable standards, promoting design, engineering, and organizational practices, and advocating and advancing modern, Agile solution delivery practices. Job expectations may include coaching, mentoring, providing feedback and hands-on career development, identifying emerging talent, fostering leadership skills, and managing stakeholders.
Overview:
Seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leader to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical Infrastructure Automation platforms. This role will lead the design and implementation of SRE practices across a federated technology ecosystem, ensuring operational excellence through automation, observability, and resilient architecture.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, SaaS application support and DevOps/SRE principles, along with strong leadership and collaboration skills to influence cross-functional engineering and Production management teams and drive continuous improvement in service reliability.
Responsibilities:
SRE Strategy & Governance:
- Define and implement SRE frameworks, including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and incident response protocols.
- Establish governance models for reliability engineering across distributed teams.
- Champion a culture of observability, proactive monitoring, and continuous feedback loops.
Reactive & Proactive Problem Management:
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews to identify systemic issues and prevent recurrence.
- Implement proactive problem detection using telemetry, anomaly detection, and trend analysis.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to eliminate toil and reduce incident frequency and impact.
Capacity & Performance Management:
- Develop and maintain capacity models to ensure systems scale efficiently with business demand.
- Monitor performance trends and lead optimization efforts across infrastructure and applications.
- Partner with finance and engineering teams to align capacity planning with cost and growth objectives.
Platform Reliability & Automation:
- Drive automation of operational tasks including deployments, scaling, and recovery.
- Integrate reliability tooling with CI/CD pipelines, ITSM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow), and observability systems.
Incident Management & Operational Excellence:
- Oversee major incident response, escalation, and communication processes.
- Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols.
- Drive continuous improvement through blameless retrospectives and operational reviews.
Technical Leadership:
- Serve as a senior technical advisor and thought leader in SRE and platform engineering.
- Mentor and guide SRE teams and partner with engineering leaders across the enterprise.
- Provide input on staffing, tooling strategy, and budget planning for reliability initiatives.
Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
- Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
- Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
- Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
- Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
- People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
- Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
- Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
- Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles in large-scale environments.
- Deep understanding of Linux/Unix & Windows systems, networking, and distributed computing.
- Proven experience with observability stacks (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python).
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Demonstrated success in leading incident response and driving systemic improvements.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive engagement.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with ITIL/ITSM processes and integration with platforms like ServiceNow.
- Familiarity with security and compliance in regulated industries (e.g., financial services).
- Background in performance engineering and infrastructure analytics.
- Experience developing dashboards and metrics for operational health and reliability.
Skills:
- Influence
- Risk Management
- Solution Design
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Strategy Development
- Analytical Thinking
- Application Development
- Collaboration
- Result Orientation
- Solution Delivery Process
- Agile Practices
- Architecture
- Automation
- Data Management
- DevOps Practices
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
Your Australian bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering satisfies the E-3 visa degree requirement, but your resume must clearly map your SRE skills to the specific role. Vague titles like 'systems engineer' can complicate LCA job classification.
Target employers with active E-3 or LCA filing history
Search the DOL's foreign labor certification disclosure data to find companies that have filed LCAs for SRE or site reliability roles. Prior E-3 filings signal the employer already understands the process and won't need to be educated from scratch.
Address on-call and hybrid work arrangements before filing
SRE roles often involve multi-site or remote on-call responsibilities. The LCA must list the primary worksite, so clarify your employer's office location policy before filing to avoid a deficiency notice from the DOL.
Get your offer letter to specify degree field requirements
The E-3 requires that the role theoretically requires a relevant degree, not just that you happen to have one. Ask your employer to include the required field of study in your offer letter before the LCA is filed.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork
LCA filing, DS-160 preparation, and consulate scheduling involve tight sequencing that's easy to misorder. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer to consulate appointment so nothing slips between stages.
Book your consulate appointment as soon as LCA certification arrives
The DOL certifies LCAs within seven working days. Schedule your Australian consulate appointment immediately after certification, since appointment slots in Sydney and Melbourne can book out several weeks, affecting your U.S. start date.
E-3 Visa Sre Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find SRE Engineer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. You can filter SRE Engineer positions by companies that have E-3 or LCA filing history, which removes the guesswork of cold-applying to employers unfamiliar with the visa. Generic job boards don't surface sponsorship willingness the same way.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an SRE Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. SRE engineering roles consistently qualify as specialty occupations because they require at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. The job duties must genuinely require that degree, so roles that accept any degree or substitute equivalent experience without a degree can face scrutiny during LCA review.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for SRE engineers?
The E-3 has a 10,500 annual allocation that has never been fully used, and there's no lottery. The H-1B is capped at 85,000 per year with a competitive lottery that rejects most registrants. For an Australian SRE engineer, the E-3 means a predictable, employer-controlled timeline rather than waiting on a random draw that may never come.
Can I change employers while on an E-3 as an SRE engineer?
Yes, but each new employer must file a new LCA and you need a new E-3 visa stamp reflecting the new role before re-entering the U.S. from outside the country. If you're already in the U.S., you can begin working for the new employer once the new LCA is certified, but you'll need the updated visa stamp at your next international trip.